Questo buio feroce

Saison
2009
ERT- Compagnia Pippo Delbono
Italy
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June 4, 5, 6 at 8 p.m.

Duration : 1h15

In Italian with English surtitles

Reserved seating

Usine C

It was in a small bookshop in a country without books that Pippo Delbono discovered the autobiography of Harold Brodkey, an American novelist who died of AIDS. In that book left behind on that journey, he discovered his own journey, his own story. That encounter became the source of inspiration for Questo buio feroce (The Wild Darkness). Onstage, his troupe of magnificent actors -- including Nelson the beggar, the deaf-and-dumb Bobo who was kept in a psychiatric hopsital for more than 40 years, and Gianluca, who is afflicted with Down's syndrome They accompany Pippo, who evokes death and suffering. He is the survivor of all mourning and grief, of all sickness and disease, ardently embracing life. Bizarre, beautiful tableaux unfold, veering from funereal whirling to a strange carnival and dancing that is wild and weird, until the ultimate, sublime triumph of death. “It is an explosion. A rock concert. A catharsis. A revolt.” The spectator leaves this wild darkness as though waking from an initiatory dream, desire and passion more than ever on the alert.


Press Quote(s)

 

“A theatrical deed of incomparable force (…)  Images that are gripping, stupefying and moving.”

La Croix, 2008

 

“An unclassifiable director, Pippo Delbono (…) presents theatre that is anchored in life (…) theatre where dialogue never overwhelms the power of the images created by the acting, the music, the lighting, the props and costumes, images artfully edited in the manner of the dance theatre of Pina Bausch and the films of Fellini or Pasolini.”

 Les Inrockuptibles, 2008

 

“Delbono romps and frolics without ever falling off a tightrope that runs from unpretentious solemnity to joyful abandon.”

Télérama, 2008


Credit

Conceived and directed by : Pippo Delbono

 

With : Dolly Albertin, Gianluca Ballare, Raffaella Banchelli, Bobò, Pippo Delbono, Lucia Della Ferrera, Ilaria Distante, Gustavo Giacosa, Simone Goggiano, Mario Intruglio, Nelson Lariccia, Julia Morawietz, Gianni Parenti, Pepe Robledo

 

Set Design : Claude Santerre

Lighting Design : John Robert Resteghini (creation), Orlando Bolognesi

Sound : Angelo Colonna

Scenery and Costumes realized in the laboratories of Théâtre de la Place- Liège

 

Production : Compagnia Pippo Delbono (Italie)

Coproduction : ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione (Italie), Teatro di Roma (Italie), Festival delle Colline Torinesi (Italie), Théatre de la Place Lièges (Belgique), Thétre du Rond Point Paris (France), TNT Théatre National de Toulouse Midi – Pyrénées (France), Maison de la Culture d’Amiens (France), Le Merlan Scène Nationale de Marseille (France), Le Fanal Scène Nationale de Saint Nazaire (France).

 

With the support of Institut Culturel Italien de Montréal

 

In association with Usine C

 

 

English Translation: Neil Kroetsch

Photos: Gianluigi Di Napoli